Welp, we’re safe and sound, in NC. The flight altogether, with the two stop-overs, was about 12 hours in total. Yup. It was crazy. We were both incredibly tired to begin with. Dave didn’t even go to sleep at all on Friday night; he figured that he would just stay awake since we had to get up at 3am to get ready to go to the airport and be there by 4:30am. I tried to “nap” a few hours before 3am, but it wasn’t very restful since I knew I had to get up. So we were both tired and grumpy throughout the whole trip.

When we got to my parents’ house, we were literally bombarded with like, 324242343 Vietnamese people, all yelling and screaming and having a huge commotion. It was like we were celebrities. Everyone started clapping when Dave and I walked in (poor guy was so overwhelmed he looked shell-shocked). If you know anything about the asian family system, you would also know that they are VERY LOUD. The womenfolk were all gathered in the kitchen, the menfolk were all gathered in the living room. There was a videotape going too, as introductions were made to Dave. A flurry of the Vietnamese language surrounded the entire house, and poor Dave was so overwhelmed. Then they started to follow us around like we were the King and Queen of England or something. Mom made us a meal (we hadn’t had a good meal throughout the whole day), and the majority of my relatives sat there and stared at us eat. LOL My uncles and my aunts were all surrounding us and asked us lots of questions, and I tried to translate as much as I can for him.

So now we’re in bed (stole Sisser’s bed — and room O.o) and the husband is sound asleep (he hadn’t slept in 30 hours or so), and I’m just surfing the internet on my laptop. I can still hear the rest of the family throughout the rest of the house chatting and laughing away. It certainly is a change from our usual quiet surroundings, that’s for sure. Heh. However, so far so good. Everything is going smoothly.